PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi today to launch power scheme

Sources said Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Governor Ram Naik would receive the PM at the LBS International airport at Babatpur from where PM will travel by helicopter and road to Banaras Hindu University (BHU), where he will inaugurate the newly-built trauma centre.

Later at the DLW ground here, he would launch the IPDS, for which Centre has already allocated Rs 574 crore. The PM would also launch the ring road project for the temple town and approve the conversion of the road from LBS International Airport to city’s Varuna bridge into a four-lane road, which is a part of NH 56. Later, he would address the ‘Vikas Jansabha’ at the same place.

This is the Prime Minister’s third visit to Varanasi.

Earlier on Friday, a BJP team took out a march in the city making an appeal to people to attend the ‘Vikas Jansabha’. While Varanasi mayor Ram Gopal Mohale and party’s Kashi region president Laxman Acharya led the march, leaders from party’s minority wing visited the weavers’ locality and requested them to attend the PM’s public meeting.